The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) presents an
analysis of a secret Chinese document on Tibetans killed by Chinese
security forces during the March 2008 protests in Lhasa. The document,
obtained recently by TCHRD, was written in Chinese by the Lhasa Public
Security Bureau (PSB) based on the autopsy reports prepared on 21 March
2008 by the medical department of Lhasa PSB.

TCHRD has obtained exclusive information that provides irrefutable
evidence that Chinese security forces used disproportionate force
including live ammunition and machine guns to kill Tibetans during the
March 2008 protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The document
obtained by TCHRD contains the list of the names of Tibetans killed by
Chinese security forces and whose dead bodies were kept at Lhasa’s
Xishan mortuary. The official document also consists of autopsy reports
of four Tibetans. Li Wan Zhan (李文展) and Wang Zhi Xue (王志学), both heads
of criminal and medical examination department of the Lhasa Public
Security Bureau performed the autopsy. This
internal document was prepared on 21 March 2008 and is titled “Document
of the criminal and medical examination department of the Public
Security Bureau, Lhasa.” Despite official Chinese pronouncement on the
contrary, the document serves as concrete evidence that Chinese security
forces killed Tibetans in different localities in Lhasa city during the
initial protests in March 2008 that ignited the 2008 Uprising in large
parts of the Tibetan plateau.